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Haute Fashion Meets High Society at the Plaza Hotel

There are certain signs that spring has arrived in New York City: pudgy, pale Wall Street bankers start running along the West Side highway, hipsters sip iced coffee in the park and the seersucker suit makes its first appearance on the fashion circuit. Hamish Bowles, European Editor of Vogue, wore a moss-colored seersucker suit with Read More

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Inside the Life of a Guinness

Lavish is not a word normally associated with book parties. Most of them are characterized by warm white wine and pallid cubes of cheese. Unless you are a member of the celebrated Guinness family, in which case your guests will be treated to Blood Orange Bellinis and delicate crab cakes in a mind-blowingly glamorous apartment Read More

Runway Rubber-Necking

Out on the edges of the solar system, far from the orbiting paths of Jupiter and Neptune, in the icy cold of deep space, Jennifer Lopez had just been sucked into a black hole. The actress-singer-entrepreneur was sitting in a roped-off area in the corner of the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Read More